February 2012
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the way nature wastes us
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Current 93 - Dormition, Dominion, and Pascal
I’m always learning more about David Tibet’s sources. While it is something of a letdown to discover particular songs to be pure recitations, there is a silver lining at least in being exposed to a new poet (John Hall, King Henry - Bishop of Chichester). What I find really rewarding is identifying more subtle and poignant references to past thinkers, like Pascal. Take the song...
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Simone Weil calling me out:
“Even to dwell in imagination on certain things as possible is to commit ourselves to them already… We believe that thought does not commit us in any way, but it alone commits us, and license of thought includes all license.”
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Oh, to be untouched by temptation.
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smoldering
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This is the crying couch - the couch on which to cry.
